SOLAR ECLIPSE OF MARCH 20, 2015

The sky, which
has always fascinated people, March 20, 2015 will show itself. This date, in
fact, is fateful for scientists and science enthusiasts because total solar
eclipse that will coincide with the Spring Equinox.

Most of the
ancient legends evoke a celestial creature devouring the Sun - a dragon for
Indian, Indonesian and Chinese, a giant frog for Vietnamese, a jaguar in
Argentina, or a vampire in Siberia, these celestial monsters are responsible
for the disappearance of the Moon or the Sun.

One Chinese
legend reports that the total solar eclipse in China on 22 October 2134 BC
took everybody by surprise. Therefore there was no time to prepare the
archers and the drummers in order to fight and frighten the dragons which
devour the Sun during the eclipse.

In fact, the
official imperial astronomers Hi and
Ho, since drunk, failed to warn in time the king who, in turn, could not
inform his soldiers and organize a counter-offensive to stop the dragon. Hi
and I were punished by beheading.

The medieval
peasants were convinced that eclipses were caused by the magic words uttered
by evil witches with the power to "hypnotize" the moon, forcing it
to approach the Earth to lay a foam on grasses that later would serve to
witches to perform their magic.

Just to prevent
to witches of operate, in many places they used to organize "jokes
disturbance" at the beginning of the eclipse, during which the farmers
would gather, running over the fields and making an infernal racket, shaking
cowbells, hammering copper and bronze, beating anvils and screaming like
crazy.

The element
helium was discovered on 18 August 1868 by the French astronomer Jules
Janssen when he observed the spectrum of the Sun during a total eclipse in
India. Helium is the second most abundant chemical element in the Universe.

To observe the
solar eclipse you must wear special glasses created for eclipses or
binoculars covered with a special solar filter or use a solar telescope; a
mask welding can be used, but the image quality is not good, because of the
thickness of the glass (double reflection). Without adequate protection,
watch a solar eclipse can cause blindness: the sunglasses are not suitable in
this case.